Senior Applied Scientist, Speech
Core
Architect, build, and evolve large-scale ASR and TTS systems to power Otter's summarization and conversational intelligence products.
Role type
Senior Applied Scientist (Speech AI)
Builds
Production-ready speech models and systems for meeting transcription and summarization
Domain
AI/ML, Speech Technology, Conversational Intelligence
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
ASR/TTS system development, model architecture design, training and fine-tuning strategies, PyTorch, end-to-end ML lifecycle management, large-scale data preprocessing, agentic systems, multi-model orchestration
Preferred skills
PhD in relevant field, experience with foundation models, agentic systems, tool-use frameworks
Technologies
PyTorch
Responsibilities
Design and improve model architectures and loss functions for speech models, lead training and inference strategies, own end-to-end ML system lifecycles from prototyping to deployment, drive system-level improvements in performance and observability, set technical direction for ML infrastructure and deployment workflows, mentor engineers and influence team standards
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities